Nile Rodgers Quotes
It was actually my partner, Bernard Edwards, who helped me develop my sort of funky jazz style.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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I don't know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training hard, you know, why can't I train hard to get a world record. I'm doing the same thing.
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The Federal Reserve is incapable of accomplishing its stated objectives.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.
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I don't write about Google except to insult the company.
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I have asked my mom and my sister a couple times if I should post something or not. Or if they think a video is funny.
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My own experience, though, as a business executive and as a governor, tells me that businesses are interested in a lot more than a low tax rate when they decide where to locate.
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Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
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I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
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I've been lucky to ride 10 different horses at the Olympics. I'd like to think that of all of them, Big Ben - who was inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame - would still be competitive in the contemporary sport.
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Comedy is such a vulnerable thing. With drama, you're not trying to make someone cry. If you do, great, but that's not your goal. With comedy, you're trying to make someone laugh, so to me, it's harder because you are in such a vulnerable position. You're like, 'I hope people like this. I hope I do the joke justice.'
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What bothers me, I guess, is when I get these messages from girls on Twitter, and they're like, 'God, you're my idol, I really admire you.' It's like, 'Admire me for what? What have I done?' It's not that being in a Burberry campaign, or walking in a Chanel show is nothing. It's just... I know I can do more.
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I go to wherever God calls me, wherever the church calls me to come to minister and preach the word of God.
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Fred Segal was founded - by none other than Fred Segal - as a tiny jeans retailer in 1968. In the 1970s Segal, began selling space to employees, starting with his nephew Ron Herman.
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Over the years, I learned that in my career, unlike in life, sometimes my wheelchair is its own automatic door opener. I was able to win the OWN competition by applying one simple principle: be funny, and admit you suck before anyone else can call you out on it. In other words, make the narrative of your failure a comedy.
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Well, I certainly wouldn't want to live in the 18th century myself, or the 19th either, for that matter.
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Negativity is the enemy of creativity.
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Personality begins where comparison ends.
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Most actresses save their best gown of the award season for the Academy, so it truly is a red carpet full of the fashion's creme de la creme.
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Even though we're not the most punk rock band, the way we've done things is pretty punk rock. Just kinda say it with a big middle finger to the record labels and do it ourselves.
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It was actually my partner, Bernard Edwards, who helped me develop my sort of funky jazz style.
